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Seem convinced a month ago, that his ever intensifying war of nerves over ukraine was working towards russias advantage. white house officials believe this tactic might be backfiring. some russian officials are questioning putins brinkmanship, and western nations, unsettled by russian bullying, are rallying around a nato alliance, that appeared to pleaded just two years ago. yet, as russia as more troops to the border, the u.s. remains on high alert. >> were in the window where we believe that a...

Over whether or not russian separatists fired on a kindergarten in their held area or whether it was ukrainian forces. that is the dispute that many of the allies in the west believe is the kind of false flag operation that would give vladimir putin the pretext to invade. >> and i do want to expand on that for now. andrea, thanks so much for jumping on with us. we as always appreciate it. were going to be seeing you at the top of the hour. i know you have to get prepared for your show. ill let y...

For moscow to follow that play book because we know theyve done it before and could be planning to do it again. a lot of the rhetoric leading up to this on russian state tv and in the words of vladimir putin just this week is that the russian speaking people of eastern ukraine are victims of genocide and oppression at the hands of the ukrainian speaking people and the government in kyiv. this is very hostile rhetoric and inflammatory and the kind of thing they could use as a pretext to say theyr...

They would bring in, for example, strategic rockets or anything above the level of conventional munitions. >> charles: we heard secretary blinken talk about the pretext for a violent event or accusation. do you think and of course its all conjecture, that vladimir putin just wants to get a portion of ukraine or do you think he really is interested in in a full invasion of the entire country? >> yeah, i think hes got -- i think hes conflicted on this. first of all, i think he is concerned about c...

Fresh artillery strikes and finger-pointing along the border adding to already rising tensions. highlighting the critical moment, secretary of state blinken rushing to new york where he addressed the u.n. security council, describing how far he fears russia will go to create a pretext to invade, from fake images of mass graves to staged chemical weapons attacks, he says. so-called false flag operations, all while russias claims of troop pullbacks are being dismissed in the west. in a moment, my ...

Because they are illegitimate. that is kind of -- if you look at whats going on right now, wolf, you have the drama, the military drama taking place in ukraine. here in moscow is another type of drama, and thats really building the case, building the pretext for possibly taking military action. i think one of the most important things today was a letter sent both from the leaders of luhansk and donbas region, and they were asking president putin, help us. they were saying military aggression fro...

From the pentagon, weve seen this administration aggressively can declassify information over the last several weeks intended to show clearly how russia is going to use in their view a false flag operation agency a pretext to declare war. how do you see this fitting into the bigger picture? >> i think this latest warning is going to be particularly weighty. i see that in large part because for the first time, were really seeing a convergence of whats happening in the military space and what puti...

Sunday? alexander lukashenko said yesterday that if the kremlin once they can hang around a bit. he doesnt mind if the russians stay for another month. but that contradicts what his foreign minister was saying a couple of days ago. he said that all the russians would return to their bases once the exercises were over and the russian defence ministry yesterday said they would all go home. so a difference of opinion there. we will find out more perhaps after the talks between president putin and a...

People to flee part of false flag activity going on to build a pretext for russia to take some sort of action to protect these ethnic russians living in eastern ukraine. maine wont brush or running a show tonight on state tv about the invasion that did not happen mocking the west timeline on this. but also making the case that ukraine is in fact about too go -- mike russia is about too go in and invade ukraine. and here hooton and the government have said many times, even in the past that the li...

Attack ukraine. >> reporter: it was a dire warning repeated at the u.n. security council by the u.s. secretary of state. u.s. officials seem to have made a strategic decision to go public with intelligence as russia in secretary blinkens words steps down the path to war. >> first, russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. this could be a violent event that russia will blame on ukraine or an outrageous accusation that russia will level against the ukrainian government. we dont know ex...